HOCKEY: MAIDSTONE SECURE £1,000 GRANT FOR THEIR JUNIOR SECTION

Maidstone Hockey Club have been awarded £1,000 to support their junior programme after applying to the Aviva Community Fund. Their application – ‘Junior Hockey for All – Our Olympic Legacy’ – impressed voters, with Maidstone one of 450 clubs to receive funding. Maidstone chairman Matt Evans said: “A huge thanks to everyone who voted for our project after our many posts, retweets and emails. “This much-needed money will be put towards sustaining and developing the junior programme with the purchase of playing equipment, kit from the basics of sticks, balls, cones and bibs to team kits and the particularly expensive specialist goalkeeping equipment. “It will also provide the opportunity for interested helpers to step towards gaining coaching qualifications, so we can truly sustain the Olympic legacy, come rain or shine, at our Armstrong Road pitch every Sunday morning.” Hockey fixtures: South Hockey League, Kent/Sussex Regional 1: Ashford v Tun Wells, Burnt Ash v Worthing, Eastbourne v Crawley, Gore Court v Maidstone, Holcombe 2nds v Old Bordenians, Sevenoaks 2nds v Folkestone. South Hockey League, Kent/Sussex Regional 2: BBHC v Brighton & Hove 2nds, Crowborough v Kings & Alleyns, Gillingham Anchorians v Mid-Sussex, Horsham 2nds v New Beccehamians, South Saxons v Old Williamsonians, Sutton Valence v Canterbury Pilgrims. Kent Area Division 1: Canterbury 3rds v Canterbury 4ths, Cliftonville v Ashford 2nds, Folkestone 2nds v Univ of Kent, Holcombe 2a v Burnt Ash 2nds, Maidstone 2nds v Marden Russets, Old Bordenians 2nds v Blackheath & OE 2nds. Kent Open Premier C: Cobdown v Old Williamsonians 3rds, Old Bordenian 4ths v Maidstone 3rds, T Wells Vets v Cliftonville 2nds, Canterbury Griffins v T Wells 4ths, Bromley & Beckenham 6ths v Holcombe 4As, Blackheath and OEs Heathens v Sevenoaks Acorns. East League Premier Division: St Albans 2nds v Holcombe 1A, Wisbech Town v Brom & Becks, Cambridge Uni v Old Loughts, Bedford v Wapping, Norwich Dragons v Maidstone. Kent Women’s Premier Division: Meopham v Sevenoaks 4ths, Cliftonville v Canterbury 3rds, Old Bordenian v Old Williamsonians, Sevenoaks 3rds v Kings Alleyns, Gravesend v Marden Russets, BBHC v Folkestone Optimist 2nds. Kent Women’s Division 3: Cliftonville 2nds v Bromley & Beckenham 5ths, O Williamsonians 2nds v O Bordenian 2nds, Folkestone 3rds v Gill Anchorians 2nds, Sevenoaks 6ths v Cobdown, T Wells 4ths v New Beccehamian 2ths.